About Christine Shaw Roome

Born on Alberta soil, Christine made her way to British Columbia to attend the University of Victoria 20 years ago and, of course, has not looked back. After testing the waters in three faculties, she finally committed to an undergraduate degree in women studies and history where she learned how to write and think critically about the world. She followed this with a master’s degree in history, which she now uses to write historical fiction.

Christine supplemented her undergraduate and graduate degrees by shelving books and working at the circulation desk at UVic’s McPherson library. A firm lover of books, she found it very difficult to leave the library and even when she did it was only a brief flirtation with the private sector. She now works as a professional fundraiser for the McPherson library.

She writes in the mean early hours of morning, during children’s naps, on coffee and lunch breaks and in any other nook and cranny of time and space that she can carve out. She writes about motherhood and parenthood because she is in it, but plans on doing so much more. She reigns queen over her household of boys which includes her husband, Loch, her nearly-four-year-old, Corbin, and her now one-year-old son, Hamish.